Ma‘asé-Ester. A Judeo-Provençal poem about Queen Esther

Erica Baricci, Ph.D. (2014), University of Milan, teaches Hebrew and Aramaic. She has published translations and articles on Judeo-Provençal and Hebrew Literature, including ‘Vite da copisti. Scorci autobiografici nei colophon di alcuni manoscritti ebraici’, Consonanze 22 (2020) and Yitzhaq ibn Sahula’s Meshal haQadmoni (Novelle Antiche, 2021).

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsEditor’s NoteIntroduction1 Judeo-Provençal Texts on Queen Esther: Dates and Context2 Narrating Purim in Medieval Provence: Wine Songs and Prayers3 Esther, an Inspirational Example of Provençal Jews4 Roman d’ Esther: Text, Author, Audience5 Biblical Inspiration and Jewish Themes6 Romanz and Romance Themes7 The Omniscient Author, the Modernization and the Irony8 Maʿasé-Ester or “Esther’s Affairs”9 Text, Content and Style10 Metrical Structure11 Between Oral Tradition and Authorial Rearrangement12 A Text in Search of an AuthorThe Maʿasé-Esther: Text and Commentary1 The Text2 Alterations in the Manuscript3 Maʿasé-Esther1 Text2 Notes to the Text4 Linguistic Study1 Phonetics: Vocalism2 Phonetics: Consonantism3 Morphology4 Syntax5 Vocabulary5 Glossary of Provençal Terms6 Glossary of Hebrew Terms7 Transcription of the Manuscript Text8 Transcription in Latin Letters9 The Codex unicus1 The ms. Rome, Casanatense 31402 Physical Description of the Manuscript and the Scripts3 Structure4 State of Preservation5 Decorations, Notes and Annotations to the Text6 A Composite Manuscript7 Story of a Book and of the Person Who Wrote it8 Watermarks9 Ms. Rome, Casanatense 3140: Photo-Reproductions of Fols. 190v–192rBibliographyIndex of Special Terms